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title:“Richard Harison's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates”
authors:Richard Harison
date written:1788-7-8
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Harison, Richard. "Richard Harison's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates." The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vol. 22. Ed. John P. Kaminski. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008. 2117-18. Print.
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Richard Harison's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates (July 8, 1788)

CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS. Convention met, and adjourned, without doing business.
ROBERT YATES. That the Gentlemen who proposed the Amendments had not yet determined in what Shape they should be brought forward to the House whether as conditional, explanatory or recommendatory—that therefore they had Nothing at present to propose—
YATES. On Tuesday the Convention met, and after being informed by Judge Yates, that the gentlemen who were arranging the proposed amendments, would not be ready to lay the same before the Convention till the next day, they adjourned till Wednesday, 12 o'clock.

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